Effective Pain Management is More Than Just a Number

Introduction to Assessment and Overview of Multimodal Management of Pain

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Pain Management is a multifaceted challenge. We use pain scales to try to understand how another person may feel or describe pain. This webinar will begin with an introduction to the importance of appropriately assessing acute and chronic pain as patients experience it as well as the importance of assessing the effect of pain on function. The differences between medication tolerance, dependency, pseudoaddiction, and substance use disorder will be explored. Are opioids always the answer? Are complementary pain therapies just “nice to try” interventions or underappreciated effective remedies? Join an interesting discussion about managing pain with an overview of a multimodal approach with pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic interventions which will help to answer those questions.

Goal and Learning Outcomes

The goal of this presentation is to discuss multimodal pain management within a context of pain scales, level of patient function, and complementary therapies. Upon completion of the webinar, learners will be able to:

Describe the relationship between how patients experience pain and assessing pain with intensity scales

Explain the importance of assessing the level of patient function with regard to pain being experienced

Explain the differences between medication tolerance, dependence, and substance use disorder

Identify characteristics of a multimodal and team approach to pain management

Course Authors

Accreditation Information

NURSES

In support of improving patient care, OnCourse Learning (a Relias LLC company) is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Unless stated above, the planners and authors of this course have declared no relevant conflicts of interest that relate to this educational activity. Relias LLC guarantees this educational activity is free from bias.

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